As neat as that would be, nah I mean release the IMAX version of these movies for people to watch at home on their own devices. Disney+ already has some of these on their platform, and they work great with a latger TV, but cheap projectors are a lot more common these days, and theres also no reason IMAX couldnt work in a VR headset.

Theaters are overpriced and the quality of movies these days make the price harder and harder to justify. They also lock you into whatever situation they provide to you, so you dont control the volume, dont control if the other patrons are assholes, generally dont have good options for subtitles, and zero ability to pause to use the bathroom which is even more annoying now that movies are twice as long with less than half the narrative depth of movies that are half the length. IMAX is often the only valuable reason to see a movie in theaters anymore, but almost every theater I’ve been to cranks the volume so loud that I just get overstimulated and it ruins the experience. I’d much rather be able to control the environment I watch these things in so I can actually enjoy them.

I know my experience is not the same as everyone else, but it still seems stupid to gatekeep these versions of films

Stop gatekeeping and make this shit available for public purchase, jfc

This seems like the best strategy realistically. If scotus makes it everyones problem, then make it a problem for those with the most to lose from losing internet access.

Starbucks in particular would have a bad time lol

Thats why I suggest phone number exchanfe for texting. Its not the most secure but RCS is at least a security boost.

Events is definitely harder, so I understand that. My wife still uses facebook and tracks that stuff. Ive actually resorted to finding events in local news sources that I put into an RSS feed. If anything Ill make a burner fb account so I can access that kind of stuff, but thus far I have not needed it. Hopefully events become less of a problem as FB becomes more of a problem

I kept telling myself the same bad excuses for why I wouldnt leave FB. Friends, Family, etc. In reality, I barely used the site, so it acted more as an easy connection to others that I didnt even really have connections with anymore because I didnt use the site.

Once it became abundantly clear they were willing to be a surveillance tool for fascist govts, I deleted my profile. I reached out to everyone to find alternative means of connecting, and the irony of that process was I connected with people I hadnt spoken to in literal years, and still talk to them now.

If you think you dont have other ways to stay in contact, you are probably incorrect. Sharing phone numbers is the easiest way to stay in contact, nearly everyone has one. I also connected on signal and discord with a variety of them.

Facebook has convinced people it is essential, but it isnt. You do not need social media to maintain social connections. You just need to be social with the connections you value.

Maybe it comes from a position of privilege, but theaters suck.

Noise cancelling from neighbouring movies tends to be crap so I can hear two movies at once. The chairs are generally uncomfortable. The audio balancing is either ass unless its IMAX, but then IMAX is too damn loud. The visual quality is not normally better than what my 5 year old phone can do. Subtitle solutions are either nonexistant or have horrid delay. Despite paying more to see movies now, you have to sit through a bunch of ads that have cringe humor and awful audio balancing. Snacks cost way to fucking much, a hot dog is not $17 jesus fuck. Theaters are also too scared to kick out disruptive customers now because the big wigs see that as lost revenue, but that just makes more people not want to go to the movies. Movies have mostly become so formulaic that its almost never worth the hype and fomo to see it in theaters and put up with the poor experience. Theyve alao become exhausringly long with no intermission and nothing of actual value to say for that added run time.

The alternative is to wait a few months and watch it on a streaming service, or rent it for a fraction of the theater ticket. Then you can watch it on your preferred screen with cheap snacks, audio that you can tune, the ability to pause and take a break, turn on subtitles, and sit on furniture that you’ll probably enjoy. No hassle over seating for your friends and family, and no dealing with disruptive randos.

Theaters need to figure out how to justify themselves soon or they aren’t surviving the upcoming recession/depression. The only theaters I’ve seen make a mark have all been indie theaters that play older and imported films while providing trivia before and sometimes aftef the film, while also providing seating that is basically couches and recliners that were probably thrifted and restored. My favorite was inside a bakery, so you could get some freshly made baked goods from a local business before you head on in to watch Goofy Movie or The Goonies. However, these theaters are affordable because they dont bow to hollywood accounting and deals with major studios, so it seems unlikely that theaters that show the latest movies will ever be able to afford being a quality experience again.

In other words Olson is setting a boundary to kill her career, cause that industry is closer to the titan submersible than it is the titanic

Also a friendly reminder that if every US church were to house 2 homeless people, homelessness would be ended.

Would love to have this run when i clear the trash bin on whatever OS

Oh so youre saying that AI companies can control what the AI says?

So meta letting their AI sext with children was intentional then…

Realistically, i think this idea might work well in tandem with a sort of PDA built off a Pi. I use my phone as a computer, because its a computer. The parts of my phone that i need to be a phone are calls and text, as i dont take photos almost ever. Data is nice, but im fairly certain i had seen recently a sim module for Pi devices, so i can just bake it into that instead so i still have a mobile computer.

Someone will eventually make a better phone OS, but in the short term it seems smart to move to a dumb phone and offset everything else to a device tou can actually control.